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jffRE heat HIVE BROKEN RAINFALL . o f.MastSevereWave S J History ,s Broken In 15 States wi»( ‘ooijm; \I.KNT K heat ih.. holiest vwir in L bureau annals was Sv cracked today by Sr showers "ver l.» r kiniM iatun s <lro|>|»- • maiiv points from „l(Hl<legnes to below • „,>uh.re rain did not 'hidT generally shielded the 0 (w m the sun which for 1 I)1M a month has pushed Litires to record heights _• toil'’ . 1 [.Bin coming on the heels o. tanrwd th'ind. rstorms Friday fiunU even revived hope an end of the drought which , bed the country of its rest food supply m*B ht t* ,n foment wither forecasters ,iir nualif'ins f. eir words but optimistic, predicted showers and "seasonable" „ rltlire s toda* and tomorrow ranch of the parched middlet Wj fell today and last night jicw York. Pennsylvania. SouthIllinois. West Virginia, Teniw Ohio, lower Michigan, inB . Kentucky, Northern Mlsn. Southern low a, Nebraska. !SJ , Oklahoma, eastern Colo- . and South Dakota. , gentle northeast breeze, ir degrees cooler than the nare blast that swept for days Ot the blazing southwest, aidtie showers in bringing the est temperatures in two sths. Kan. as City, where 101 fees has come to be regarded mnmonplace. experienced its Hid successive night of tern Mures in the low seventies. In nto the mercury dropped to ud Nebraska. lowa and the «ss dialled to 67 and 68 dels. L P. Day, Chicago district ither forecaster, dashed a few es with a warning that there lis no prospect of steady era! rains, but added in the e breath that continued showEight be expected with sufflit regularity to prevent an mediate recurrence of the 110 IIS degrees marks of last klshonn City and Wichita, Idegree readings were the t«( spots in the country yeshy where Friday a half dozen OONT4NTED ON PAGE SIX) o—yers Auto Is Stolen Sunday Decsnir affkere had discovered Itmces yet Monday afternoon of model A Ford coach, owned by tthony Meyers of thio city, which * stolen Sunday morning. Mr. res bad parked the auto at Mad- ® and Fifth streets while attend--1 services at the St. (Mary's treh. Authorities of surrounding •as and counties were notified ■ediately, ev - Chas. Prugh Returns To City k’. Charles ,M. Prugh, pastor of 1 loc’al Zion Reformed church of •city reutrned to his home Sat“f after a six month’s visit to r ”W- While there he received iDottor of Theology degree, from ™ el,) erg University. This is the Piest scholastic degree given iby “wan Universities. Jiev - Prugh preached his first ,mo ’i to his congregation Sunday ni,| k A large crowd attended. ■ ~ ’ o— .... i Rites Tuesday Afternoon I ’ li “' ral services for Mrs. John •“ollenbacher, 56, who died at • wins County Memorial Hoe,L^ ry Sat urday morning, will Tuesday afternoon at 1:30 ■ eastern standard time, at °®e, southeast of Geneva, and .or ock at lhe Z | on L, utheran ‘ °f Berne. Rev. Carl * Wl " officiate.

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Guest At Picnic 9 y <■ » i * Congressman Janies I. Earley of 1 Auburn, representative in congress from the Fourth District, paid a surprise visit to the Moose picnic ' Sunday afternoon in the Liniger grove, west of Decatur. Congressman Farley gave a short talk through the amplifying system ' installed on the grounds. FARLEY SPEAKS AT STAG PICNIC — i Congressman .1. I. Farley Gives Address At Moose Picnic — I Congressman James I. Farley of ‘ i Auburn, attended the Moose picnic .(held Sunday in the Liniger grove west of Decatur and made a .short ■ talk through the amplifying system • installed on the grounds. iMr. Farley, who Is a mem/ber of the Jfloose lodge, told of attending . a meeting in Washington, honoring •. -SmmUwt J »mw ’J Dsvtv. of-PMthsyl-i vania and founder of the benevol- - ent order. Congressman Farley rep- • i resented the lodges of the Fourth > I district at the testimonial given for I Senator Davie. I The Fourth district congressman > paid tribute to the Moose membership on their great endeavor centeri ed at Mooseheart, where more than > 1500 orphaned children are cared ‘ for. educated and prepared for the battle in the commercial world." I "You can walk with your heads up because each one of you is doing I his part in maintaining this great ■ city of childhood”, Mr Farley stat- • ed. »| Speaking of legislation passed by • the last congress. Congressman, - Farley told of his interest in the i sugar beet control bill. When the • I measure was first introduced the t. bill provided for a 40 per cent rei duction in American beet acreage. . When finally adopted, the reduc- ■ tion was cut to 16 per cent, mak•l Ing it possible for American sari mera to grow more beets. "You have in Washington one of the greatest men that ever occupied the White House”, Congressman Farley stated in referring to r President Roosevelt. "You know he is fighting for the average fellow. I He is a great humanitarian and it f we follow him the country will see r the greatest era of prosperity ever 1 ‘(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) JAMES BECKNER DIES SUDDENLY Wells County Farmer Dies Saturday Morning Os Heart Attack . i , James Beckner. 79. dropped dead I of a heart attack Saturday mornj ' fng at his home in Jefferson town--5 ship. Wells county, five mllee north ' east of Tocain. He and Frank Hecki ley had just completed repairing a t pump when Mr. Beckner suffered f the fatal attalck. The deceased was born in 'Adams county Novemlber 35. 1854. a son of Moses and .Mary Ann Underwood Beckner. He married Hannah Caid I August 5, 1886. She preceded him | in death in 19®6. i Surviving are a son Lewie C. of t Hobart. 'lnd., two brothers, John '-[of Bellevue. Michigan and Samuel 1 oif Wells county. »■ 'Funeral services will he held at t 3:30 o'clock Tuesday afternoon at 1 the Elzey funeral home In Ossian, i with the’ Rev. A. S. Elzey ofticiat--1 ing. Burial will be made at 'the Ossian cemetery.

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SEVEN KILLED IN ACCIDENTS OVER WEEKEND Traffic Accidents Throughout Indiana Take Toll Os Lives SCORES OF OTHERS REPORTED INJURED Indianapolis, Aug. 13 — (U.R) — j Traffic accidents took a toll of at least seven lives in Indiana over the weekend, a survey today showed. Scores of others were Injured, j Two men were killed and a ( third was injured slightly when ! the automobile in which they were . riding overturned on state road 2. . east of Laporte. The dead were, Edward Andrzejewski, 22. and . John Piasecki, 23, both of South ! Bend. Injuries suffered by James Hodson, 4. Fairmount, when he ran into the path of an automobile driven by W. W. Daw’son. Muncie, ( near Upland, caused the boy’s | death. < | John Holcomb, 15. was killed , near his home at Reynolds when an automobile which he was driving overturned. One Ixmisville, Ky.. young wo'lman was killed and two companions were injured seriously when the automobile in which they were I riding overturned near Earl Park. J Miss Gertrude Hazelwood. 22. died ; I instantly. Miss Mildred Basham, i ; 36. driver of the car, and her I . i brother, F.lhert Basham, 30. also i of Louisville, were taken to the i I Earl Park hospital. Leßoy Tice, 37, Goodland, was I ’ ’(CONTINUKD* ON* PAGE FIVE) CLUB SHOW IS HUGE SUCCESS — More Than 5.000 Attend Final Night Os Club Show At Berne — .Leaders in the 4-H and home eco- ' nomic clubs in the county annountc- ' ed today that plane are being made to have even a greater exhibit next | ; year than the one which closed at i Berne Saturday. Between 5.000 and 8.000 persons . attended the closing night it is es- ,! t.imated. Probably the largest crowd . | ever to witness a horse pulling con- j I teet in Adams county saw a team ■ owned by Louis Haines win the heavyweight contest and a team . j owned by Albert Beer win the light weight contee.t Saturday, morning. Forty head of colts, sixty head of 11 calves and six teams marched in . the 4-H clulb parade Saturday after- .' noon. , 1 The airplane stunts and the para- ! . chute jump by Gene Rbck were also 1 enloyed by the crowd. ' i The winners in the team pulling : ! contest are as follows: 1 ILightweight division, 3.000 lbs. | or less. 1. Albert Beer. 2. Walter Lehman 3. Otto Lehman. Winning team pulled load of 5.606 lbs. ' The heavyweight division, atbove j ’ (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) 1 Three Students Pass Examination County superintendent of, | schools Clifton E. Striker received j word today that three students in the CWA classes held here last I ! winter had successfully passed ! the examinations given a month I ago at the Indiana University ■ Extension Center at Fort Wayne. 1 All three grades were good. I Three classes were conducted j in this city by W. O. Little. He 1 was paid through the federal ' emergency adult education funds. 1 Only one of the classes was completed. English composition. The , government suspended payments on the others when they were . ' about half done. These classes, | psychology and mathematics will be completed next fall. Indiana University credit is giv- . ! en for each of the classes taught here when the students pass a . supervised examination. Those who passed the first semester are Dorothy Little, Marcia Martin and , Ann Murtaugh.

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As Aluminum Workers Answered Strike ( all lEI ata UH I W i Affecting some 40.600 workers in the various plants of the Aluminum company of America, a strike call has closed down the Mellon-owned companies, with the exception of maintenance forces and power plant operatives. In a number of cities. This photo shows Employes massed outside the plant of the company at New Kensington, l'a.. following the strike <ull.

SPORTSMAN IS SLAIN IN HOME Night Club Owner Is Murdered By Three Mobsters This Morning Revere, Mass., Aug. 13 —<U.Rl — Three mobsters, armed with machine gun and automatic pistols, murdered Nate Siegel, night club owner, sportsman, and former »New England welterweight boxing champion, in the living room of his home here early today. Tlie killers escaped tn a sedan tearing Maine registration plates. Siegel’s brunette wife. Clara, had just left the room and was busy in the kitchen at the time of tlie shooting. Asleep in the apartment were the victim's son, George. 9, an adopted son, Oliver, 17. Rushing into tlie living room at the sound of the shots. Mrs. Siegel found her husband dead on the floor. She screamed hysterically then rushed to the telephone, called police headquarters and cried “Nate has been killed! Get a doctor!” Neighbors who soon wore on 'tie scene noticed that the killers failed to take several hundred dollars in cash —the teceipts ot Siegel's Cloverleaf night dub- that lay on ' a table in plain sight. Eight hours a’ler the murder no arrests had been made. One phase of the investigation eon-' cerned a report- that Siegel had. ♦ - • (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) PARTY REACHES ADMIRAL BIRD Rescue Party Os Three Men Reaches Antartica Explorer v Little America, Antarctica. Aug.. 11 yu.R> - (Delayed)—(via Mackay' Radio to UP)—Unshaven, hair tin- 1 cut, physically weak, Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd was relieved today from his 4% months of seif imposed isolation in a hut 123 , miles out on the Ross ice harrier. A tractor party of three men, headed by Dr. Thomas C. Poulter. [ reached Byrd after a dangerous, journey through the Antarctic winter darkness. Tiring of his solitude, which he had intended to maintain for another month or two, Byrd ordered the tractor party to his rescue. Two attempts failed, but on the third Poulter, E. J. Demas and A H. Waite reached him after a dangerous three day Journey. From fragmentary messages sent from Byrd's hut it appeared he had been badly affected in June by fumes from his gasoline stove. He was left weak and unable to care for himself properly. Apparently he was unable to cook his food properly or pay attention to his diet. The tractor party sighted ten (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, August 13,1931.

Ncvil Funeral Services Sunday Funeral services for John Nevll 67, retired farmer and oil driller, residing three miles south ot Berne who di**! at his home Thursday evening at 9 o'clock of cancer of the ' stomach, were held Sunday afternoon at the Ceylon Methodist Episcopal church. Burial was in the Bunker Hill cemetery. Surviving are the widow, June, and 13 grandchildren and 51 great grandchildren. Two children and 11 grandchildren are deceased. » ' — „ Q —. DEATH CLAIMS EMMA ECKROTE Mrs. Daniel Eckrote,Cook At Hospital, Dies This Morning i •Mrs. Emma Eckrote, 61. wife of Daniel A. Eckrote. and cook at the Adams County Memorial Hospital i for a number of years, died at the ! hospital at 6 o’clock this morning [ of a throat infection. 'Death was due to lymiphatic leukemia resulting from a throat infection. Mrs. Eckrote became ill from the infection albout eight weeks ago. IMrs. Eckrote had resided in De- [ catur for the past 11 yeans, moving here from Linn Grove. She has i been cook at the local hospital I since it was opened 11 years ago. She was a memlher of the First ! Evangelical church in this city and ■ took an interest in civic and church activities. She was beloved by all , who knew her. Mrs. Eckrote was born in French township. A-jams County on Octo- ! her 24. 1872, and was a daughter of Christian and Barbara Roth-Neuen-schwander. Her marriage to Daniel i A. Eckrote took place in Berne on I March 10. 1894. Two eons were born to the uni ion. One son. Milton, died on Dec- [ ember 30. 1924. 'A' son. Waldo EckI rote, resides on Mercer avenue, this | city. IMrs. Eckrote was one of a family ' of eleven children. Brothers and sie--1 ters surviving include: Cleophae Neuensch'wander of Pandora, Ohio; Mrs. Elizabeth Flory of Berne; Jonas Neuensrhwander of Vera [Cruz; Mrs. Anna Gilliom of Bluffton; iMrs. Aldine Burkhalter of Bluffton. Ohio; Jess Neuenschwan- | der of Woodburn and Daniel Neuen- | schiwander of Findlay, Ohio. A brother Ben, and two sifters, Rachel and Mary are deceased. •Funeral services will be held "(CONTINUEIIToN PAGE FIVE) o Ival Newhard Will Teach At South Bend Ival Newhard. son of Mr. and Mrs. Orie Newhard of Preble, re--1 ceived word today that he has been accepted as a teacher in the South ! Bend city schools. Mr. Newhard ■ was graduated from Ball State i Tea'chers college at Muncie this i sipring, and is also a graduate of the Decatur high school. This appointment is unusual in that graduates are generally placed in rural schools the first year.

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SPANISH PRINCE DIESIN WRECK Second Heir To Non-Ex-istent Throne Killed In Auto Crash Vienna. Aug. 13. — (U.R) —Prince! Gonazlo, second heir to the now | non-existent throne of Spain, died i today of injuries he received in a [ 'motor car accident victim of his sister’s effort to save the life of a iMcyclisl. ’ Gonzalo. 20. and his sister, the! Infanta Beatrice, 25, were motor [ ing near Krunipendorf. Beatrice; was driving. She saw a bicyclist [ on the dark road. Swerving, she i I ran the car into a wall. The prince, fourth and youngest' i son of former King Alfonso, died , I at 12:45 a. m. today of concussions [ I of the stomach and burst blood ves-■ i seis, 17 hours after the accident. | Gonzalo bled to death, and this [ fell, under the Hapsburg curse of hemophilia from which his eldest I brother suffers. Inherited only by males and i ; transmitted only by women, it has been marked into tlie Hapsburg [ family with which the Bourbon line : of Alfonso is mixed. It was not thought at first that i [ Gonzalo was seriously injured. But several hours after the accident lie [ became ill, and it was found that ! i the “curse of the Hapsburgs” had 1 been visited on him. The blood ■ vessels in his stomach burst. Gonzalo and his sister were driv ; ' (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) —„—o GOVERNOR WILL FOLLOW REPORT Report Os Penal Experts Will Be Followed Out By Indiana Indianapolis, Aug. 13. —(U.R)— Per-' sonnel changes at the Indiana [ state prison will hinge on a report being prepared for Gov. Paul V. McNutt by a committee of nationally known penal experts. This fact was made plain by the governor Saturday night at a meeting ot' the Democratic Editorial Association in French Lick. Referring to criticism heaped upon the administration by nutner- [ our escapes, McNutt reiterated that all recommendations of the committee will be carried out to the letter, even though they involve the j dismissal of Warden Louis E. | Kunkel. j Persistent reports have been circulated that a penal expert to be recommended by Warden Lewis ! Lawes of Sing Sing and Sanford Bates, federal director of prisons, would replace Kunkel. Far reaching structural changes amounting to almost the building of a new prison will be made at Michigan City institution if the 1 1935 legislature appropriates suffi- ' j cient funds, the governor indicated. He pointed out that the prison 1 was built during Civil War days j ..........-- (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)

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BOY SCOUTS ENO ANNUAL OUTING Forty-six Boy Scouts Return Sunday From Camp At Rome City Forty-six Adams county boy scouts and the camp leaders returned Sunday from a week’s tamp at Sylvan laike. The camp I now is located on Logan Island near the Gene Stratton-Porter estate at Rome City. Robert Sheppard of the Geneva troop was selected as the out- j standing camper. He also receiv-| ed an honor camper award. A camp fire court of honor was held Saturday night and awards were won by the following boys: I ; Robert Hammond, second class: | Fred Kirsch, first class, and Mere-! ' dith Cline, merit badges, first aid and civics. Rotary troop number 61 and I Geneva troop number 66 tied for fit st place in camp inspection with 98.33 points each. The boys I In these camps received special I bar riboon awards to be sewed on ■ their uniforms. One of the boys found a rattle. snake. The snake was captured ! a'ive by the scout masters and | placed in the nature museum. This makes a total of seven 1 makes found and captured there ( I this summer. The boys also assisted in the ' moving of the camp equipment I from the Gene Stratton-Porter • states to equipment is being moved on i boats, a distance of about one half ; a mile, to Logan island. The ! heavy equipment will be moved i this winter across the ice. laigan Island was recently purchased as I the permanent camp of the boy (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) HUGE HIGHWAY CONTRACTS LET — More Than $1,000,000 In Contracts Let During Month Os July — Indianapolis, Aug. 13— (U.R) — Highway and bridge construction ! work having a total cost of more than $1,000,060 was placed under contract during July by the state highway commission, James D. Adams, chairman, announced to- ■ day. Highway work placed under contract had a total cost of $671,174 ' while bridge and grade separation i construction contracted during tho month cost $268,382. More than $8,006,000 worth of highway, bridge and grade separa- ! tion work has been placed under contract by the highway departi The major portion of the work (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) Elmer Woods To , Ask For Leniency ■Elmer Woods of Adams county is | one of the 51 inmates of the etate ; prison and reformatory who will , present petitions for leniency at . this week’e session of the state cle- . mency board, it was announced to- : day. The three day session opens ' tomorrow. ! Wood was convicted here on a i charge of robbing the Bank of Linn | Grove, on .March 27, 1928. With him .' at the time of t'he robbery were Ralph Siniff. Everett Gaither and J. Phil Chamlberlain. All four were ■ sentenced to 20 years at the state prjson on March 30, 1929 by former Judge Jesse Sutton. o Adams County Man Escapes Prison , Sheriff Burl Johnson received , word today That Orie Smith of Adams county estaped Saturday from tile honor farm at Mount . Vernon, Ohio. This farm is a part . of the state penal institution loi cated at Mansfield. Ohio. Smith was arrested in this county several months ago at the request of the sheriff of Paulding i county, Ohio, for the robbery of . the While general store at Paulding. Dewey Schafer was also , arrested by Sheriff Johnson on . the same charge. They were taken to Paulding , and convicted on the- robbery ( charge. They were sentenced to . 10 to 20 years in the Ohio penal farm.

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GOVERNMENT TO ELIMINATE ANY UNDUE PROFITS Summary Action Is Promised By Government Against Profiteers SOME RAISES IN PRICES NATURAL Washington, Aug. 13.—W.R) ■ —The drought will increase i food prices inevitably but [profiteering from the national [calamity will be smashed, Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace informed President Roosevelt today as 1 the administration moved to i attack the drought problem on 'all fronts. The president’s first move of the day was to order acting Federal | Relief Administrator Aubrey Wil- ' Hams to purchase surplus farm ! crops and fruit for drought relief [ purposes. Hay probably will be ■ bought in addition. Wallace at the conclusion ot an ! hour's conference devoted solely to drought problems indicated that [ Mr. Roosevelt would announce sometime this week a definite polI icy for meeting the disaster. At the same time he pointed out that there were no changes con- ; templated at the moment in AAA ] plans although he indicated that I the government probably would reI lax acreage control next year for the protection of the consumer. i in the event acreage control if I relaxed for a year to produce an 800,060,000 bushel wheat crop which would be 2,000,000 bushels : above the normal consumption, he said that ”we would be prepared to step in next fall either to buy enough stuff to keep the farmer from being hurt or by advancing him loans.” Wallace, however, insisted that a I des'ision hand not been reached as 1 yet on acreage reduction. “I told the President that the : drought is the worst we have ever i had but that we have enough food to go around if we use common sense,” Wallace added. I Spread publicizing through newspapers of fair prices for daily 1 staples is expected to be the most effective weapon in halting the inroads of the profiteer. The AAA, however, can in an emergency invoke the drastic licensing provisions of the adjustment act. The license powers would enable [ the AAA to dictate fair prices for ' virtually all staples through its control over processors, 'll can even compete against private industry through its own processing units if all other means of control . failed. Drought effects will be felt first in the butcher shop, officials said. Pork prices have started up and will advance further. Beet and *TcONTINUED*ON PAGE SIX) Observe Assumption Feast Wednesday The feast of the Assumption of Virgin Mary will be celebrated Wednesday in the Catholic church. It is a holy day of obligation and one of the important feast days of i the year. Masses at St. Mary’s Catholic church will be said at five seven and nine o’clock. o Robert Freeby’s Father Is Dead •Charles Freeiby, 62 year old retired banker of LaGrange, and father of Roibert Freeiby of Decatur, | died Saturday morning at 5 o’clock | at his home of complications. iMrs. Freeiby engaged in the hardware business in Shipshewana for a number of years, entering the | bank at LaGrange five years ago. | Mr. Freeiby of Decatur is the only ' [ child in the family. Surviving are the widow at LaGrange and the son. Funeral services were held Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the home in 1aG range. I I — o Adams Post To Elect Officers > Adams post number 43 of the i American ILegion will elect officers for the ensuing year at the reg- ; ular meeting at 8 o’clock tonight at • the Legion hall on South Second > street. All members of the local I post are urged to attend this meeting.